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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a civil rights fighter she just wanted wanted equality in the world for people no matter what their color.in 1955 rosa was on the city bus in Montgomery, Ala in the frount seats witch afircan americans could sit in unless a white persion got on the bus then the african american had to move, well a white persion came on and rosa refused to move she was arrested and meny african ameicans boy cotted after that the buses lost mony and gave in rosa won that battel!! -
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh has been called a "traitor" and a "revisionist" by some who call themselves Marxists and Leninists. The NLF has been accused of "selling out" the people of Vietnam. These conclusions come from lies about the leadership's position in Paris, saying that they have retreated from their "Five Points." To perpetrate such lies in an attempt to divide the struggle is counter-revolutionary at best, and can only serve the interests of world imperialism. -
John F. Kennedy
When John F. Kennedy became president in 1961, African Americans throughout much of the South were they couldent vote,shamed from public facilities, made sented of attenchion for ridicule, insults and violence, and could not expect justice from the courts. In the North, black Americans also faced discrimination in housing, employment, education, and many other areas. But the civil rights movement had made important progress, and change was on the way. -
Freedom Rides
a group of 13 African American and white civil rights activists started the freedom rides, a bunch of bus trips throughout the south part of america to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Over the next few months, several hundred Freedom Riders engaged in similar actions. In September 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in bus and train stations nationwid -
March on Washington
over 200,000 went to washington D.C for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. put together by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was ment to show people what african americans went threw caross the country. during the march Dr.Marthin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speach a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
Civil Rights Act
In the 1960s, Americans who knew only the potential of "equal protection of the laws" expected the president, the Congress, and the courts to fulfill the promise of the14th Amendment. Proposed by John F. Kennedy, and signed into law in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson, the Civil Rights Act was a sweeping, great piece of laws intended to end discrimination persion what they looked like or what they beleaved, rather who they were it is often called the most important U.S law on civil rights history. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
On September 15, a bomb exploded before Sunday morning services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a church with a predominantly black congregation that served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders, such as marthin luther king jr, Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shutterworth were mostly in the church or whent to the church. 4 young girls were killed, and meny others hurt. a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car. -
William Westmoreland
William Westmoreland Commanded the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam (MACV) in June 1964 after being a distinguished veteran of World War II and the Korean War. Over the next four years, the general directed much of U.S. military strategy during the Vietnam War,spearheading the buildup of American troops in the region from 16,000 to more than 500,000 -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment.the voting rights were being slowly revoked for africen americans. -
Fair Housing Act of 1968
In April 1968 forbid discrimination elagbilatly in geting a home Intended as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. the bill was the subject of a contentious debate in the Senate, but was passed quickly by the House of Representatives in the days after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The act stands as the final great legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
Ant-War Protest
On Nov. 15, 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium Committee heald whats said to be the bigest antiwar protest in United States history when about half a million people attended a mostly peaceful demonstration in Washington. Smaller demonstrations were held in a number of cities and towns across the country.
